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Today i bring to you the first hand experience of Hagane Kurage's audition for the band competition. Its in narrative, so bear with me k? here we GOOOOOOOO!!!! FUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




28 sept 2006, Its around 5.20 pm, I called the bassist, Siddik, who said that he and Justin, the drummer, and Bobby, the lead guitarist, was waiting in the nearest foodcourt which is FC 4, haha, and boy when we met, we could not say a single thing cause we were so nervous man... It did not help when Rita brought her friends along... As the lead singer, she should be more nervous than the rest but here she was, smiling brightly...

After a little touch up from Bobby, also our hair-stylist, We headed to the audition room. Got a little lost but eventually found it in the middle of a dark alley. Haha, a dark alley in Singapore Poly... Scary ar... Anyway, I went in and first person i noticed already there, was Daryl, sitting on the pianist seat. Daryl, lead guitarist and back up vocals of St Patricks birthed band, TealFault, which reached the finals of a local band competition called "School of Rock". He's one of the reasons why i picked up the electric guitar, and he being my classmate constantly influence me as well... Well, now we are rivals. This time he is not playing the guitar, he got the percussions for his band.

Hagane Kurage sat at the corner of the audition room, I picked a comfortable spot near the audition platform with the guys, and began observing my competition. Many of them i knew, Some from another band whom i am playing the bass, and my classmates whom daryl is in the band, and from the buddy classes... Before the actual thing began the competition seemed to be already heating up... However, I prayed a slight prayer under my breath "God, clam my nervous heart, give me strength, and grant me love so i would not treat these people with biasness and selfishness."

As soon as i opened my eyes, Siddik came back with the results of our performance queue, which is the second one... ARGH! at first i thought it would be better to go last, but haha anything lah orh? >.< We sat back down and began checking our equipment, and the first band began setting up. They looked quite amatuerish, but who am i to judge? We are worse... 5 minutes passed they began playing. They played some song from this band, named the vines... One of those punk hard rock... not bad, but then Siddik began telling me how lousy they are... I mean come on, i though they were good...

Finally its our turn... I began setting up the equipment, Siddik gave one suggestion that the bass will help to set the tempo, then the drummer give the cue, then i start the song as usual. Sounded good, so i said ok. setting up infront of everybody is nerve wrecking... All those eyes, observing how you set up, already having some first impression on how "pro" you are... man... I was already shaking and palm sweating... argh! After some minor complications, finally we are ready to rock and roll.

Siddik began the timing when i nodded my head to show that i was ready, however the drum cue was a shocker cos it came in so sudden. Yikes! First second of the the song and we showed how nervous we were... I could not look up... I began to play.... Palm mute strumming... it went quite well. Then Rita sang, it sounded a little off pitch... ARGH!! and the lead guitarist part was although slightly softer than mine, the clariness of his sound drowned my muffled overdrive rhythms... yikes i began to panicked a little, but soon it was ok... A minute passed... The intro and first verse went quite well, very rockish. Then suddenly in one of the drum fills, we heard empty rolls, argh! Bobby and I turned back and saw to our horror, Justin struggling with one collapse floor tom and crash cymbals! ARGH!!! How bad can it turn out!? wat the!!!!! but we continued. Its our responsibility to rock out the rest of the song with one of our comrades down. I began to increase strumming difficulty to make up for the lost sounds, and began string scratching whenever i see an opportunity to increase funkiness. Bobby began to play better as well, it seemed that we got our cool together and we rocked till we dropped... ....


An hour passed, the auditions came to the end, only Siddik and me remained to see the other bands, and boy were some of them good. We came to the conclusion that we would not make it to the finals, i was upset at first but then it came to me, whether we get in or not, we accomplished something. I was happy and told this to Sid. Both of us brightened went back day looking forward for the nest opportunity to shine as a J rock band...

News got to Sid that my friend, Daryl's band, got into the finals, I mean i was not suprised, the lead singer was good, clear and can pull of some nice pitch, I went to leak the news when i saw them in class and congratulated them. In my heart i was dampened to see their happy replies. But then i was not despaired, when they asked me whether we got in, i told them it does not matter, we will try our best the next year... i knew i have to improve myself...


Today, 2 october, Got news from Siddik, WE ARE IN THE FINALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

I cannot believe my ears at first! ARGH!!!!! so overjoyed till it hurts! wahahahahaha! man...

So this is my experience! Thanks for reading, remember that i said i want to become a pastor? I really do hope that one day i can be one... I mean fuse what i am doing now and my dream? I WILL BECOME A ROCKING PASTOR !!!!!!!!!!! FUUUUUUUUU!


wahaha, okok, gonna rock my joy with DOTA! NIGHT!


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